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Promiscuous November
I admit it: I'm a promiscuous reader. I flit from book to book on a whim. Reading lots of different things at any given time. Can't commit to just one. Might finish, might not, even if I love it. And I'm okay with it. Gotta save something for the nursing home.
Much of November's reading was The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins. One of the ( Read more... ) -
Sold!
Sold! A new story to a very nice market. Very happy.
Especially since it came on the heels of 7 rejections in November. 7. I was getting bummed out. I was about to start buying Glee songs off iTunes - one for every rejection.
Once I visited the sales pen at New Horizons, where I taught software, and spent time reading some of the motivational ( Read more... ) -
Delighted
The geek heaven website io9 is now featuring my story Searching for Slave Leia - very lovely. They're part of Gawker Media and it's great that every month they carry a Lightspeed story to even more audiences. Thanks, io9!
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Triple ALA
Very happy to see The Secret of Othello, book 2 of the Fisher Key Adventures, is a finalist for the American Library Association Rainbow list. What I love about the list is that it highlights books for GLBTQ and straight teens (and readers) and helps librarians bring these works to their communities. Also listed are great books by Leslea Newman, ( Read more... ) -
Best stories in October
Read 31 short stories in October, which I kept track of with WorkFlowy.com - very easy to use, absolutely essential now to keeping my writing, reading, submissions and to-do lists organized.
The first anthology I bought in Oct was the Million Writers Award non-sf anthology. Two so far are standouts: Marshall Moore's The Infinite Monkey Theoreom ( ( Read more... ) -
3 of 7!
Very excited to announce that #3 of my current or upcoming publications has hit the presses.
My story "Searching for Slave Leia" is Lightspeed magazine! This is my first time in Lightspeed and I'm very excited. I was at WisCon a few years back when the magazine debuted and I was very impressed with what John Joseph Adams was doing. The contents of ( Read more... ) -
2 of 7!
Here at Casa McDonald we are continuing to celebrate 7 current and upcoming publications. 7!
Novels can meander all over the place in search of a valuable storyline. Short stories don't have that room to wander. The good ones are like jewels, reflecting a unique insight or experience of the world. The bad ones are like fast food hamburgers, ( Read more... ) -
4 for Tuesday
1. Spent the weekend in Savannah with Mom. Loved it. Okay, didn't love the parking and traffic on Friday night, but Saturday's bus tour was fun and much more relaxed. City market, Telfair Museum, River Street -- all great for people-watching and soaking in history and culture. Sunday we visited the Mercer Williams house (made famous by Midnight ( Read more... ) -
35 again! And a pretty award
Today I am 35 years old again! Happy birthday to me. I am now younger than Reese Witherspoon, Alicia Silverstone, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Hard to believe, I know.
To celebrate, Mom and I are zipping up to the fabulous city of Savannah, Georgia, where Paula Dean will host a vegetarian feast in my honor. This might make up for ( Read more... ) -
Rec: Rules for Virgins by Amy Tan
Amy Tan's "Rules for Virgins" is amazing - powerful, detailed, sly, poignant. I could list adjectives all day. I got it as an e-novella for Kindle and read it in one sitting. A great example of voice, historical detail, human passion and folly -- and I love the euphemisms. According to the write-up it's the first fiction Amy Tan has published in ( Read more... )